Media mogul Robert E. "Ted" Turner sent a packed crowd of students and journalists into hysterics at the ARCO forum last night as he described the beginnings of the Cable News Network (CNN) in the 1970s.
Turner was at the forum to receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government.
"That didn't cost you very much," he quipped after receiving the framed award.
Turner said he conceived of CNN, the 24-hour cable news service, in 1970, when his busy schedule kept him from seeing the six o'clock news.
"A 24-hour news channel would really be a great convenience," Turner recalled thinking.
Turner described the process of forming CNN as risky and uncertain.
"I was like Columbus," he said. "I didn't know where I was heading, where I had gotten to when I arrived, or where I had been when I got back."
Turner also commented on the future of CNN, as well as his own plans.
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